Mission: Helping organizations increase
performance and productivity in
diverse local and global environments!

Joseph (Joe) Santana
is Chairman of
the Institute for Corporate
Productivity's Chief Diversity Officer
Board, President of Joseph Santana, LLC
and a member of the Insight Into
Diversity Editorial Board. He is a
well-known global inclusion strategic
management consultant and coach that
focuses on helping client's increase the
business value they derive from the
growing diversity surrounding their
businesses. Joe's client’s are leading
organizations that want to grow the
measurable results they are getting out
of workplace, marketplace and workforce
diversity by developing solutions that
more fully leverage these as assets
(See a partial list of organizations
served below).

Joe’s unique and highly effective
approach comes from his broad experience
as a frontline business executive, which includes running a
highly profitable, New York City-based,
300-employee outsourcing business for
Siemens Business Services where he
increased profitability by leveraging
the growing diversity in his workforce
and job candidate pools. Later, leading
the division's national training and
organizational development team
responsible for 5,000-employees, he
replicated this success across the
division. Appointed as Siemens’ first diversity
officer, he next applied his business
and governance skills as the architect
of the company’s rapidly successful
65,000-strong USA employee diversity and
inclusion practice. His accomplishments
in this role included launching a
national governance organization;
creating and implementing a sustainability
model; and establishing a platform that
enabled the company to grow over 60
employee resource groups, three national
networks, and 11 diversity councils
closely linked to the business. Direct
business benefits from these efforts
included increasing the company's
ability to attract, secure and retain a
growing portfolio of public business at
both the federal and state levels as
well as expanding on its already huge
private client list.

In a parallel career as a
thought-leading author, Joe
has written thousands of articles,
including feature pieces for
Diversity Executive Magazine
andInsight into Diversity
Magazine; a regular daily e-paper
called DI Perspectives; and a
regular blog on the Diversity
ExecutiveMagazine site, which
offers tips to employee network leaders.
He also has created white papers and
books that have been published in
several languages across several
continents, including Asia, Europe, and
Africa. A sought-after speaker and media
commentator, Joe has been quoted in
numerous magazines and books, including
Thomas Friedman’s 2005 bestseller,
The World is Flat.

For his work as a thought leader that brought business rigor and a focus
on increasing organizational return on
diversity, Joe
has received a number of prestigious
awards, including a Diversity Officer
Leadership Award from Diversity Best
Practices, a listing among the “Most
Important Hispanics in Technology,
Government and Business” by Career
Communications Group, Inc. in 2010 and
again in 2011, as well as a place on
Hispanic Business Magazine’s 2011
list of the “100 Most Influential
Hispanics.”

Today, Joe continues his groundbreaking work helping organizations turn
local and global diversity into a top
competitive asset through
Strategic Consulting,
Transformative Presentations and
Board Service.